MARSHFIELD – Residents at the April 24 town meeting will consider proposed allocations of Community Preservation Act money totaling more than $2 million.

The recommendations from the town’s community preservation committee include $522,000 for the creation and conversion of affordable-housing units and $75,000 for the salaries and expenses of the town’s affordable-housing coordinator and technical consultant.

The $522,000 would go to the Marshfield Housing Opportunity Purchasing Program, which gives eligible people a chance to buy homes. So far, the program has created 25 affordable-housing units in town.

The community preservation committee would like to see more affordable housing created by the town, rather than through Chapter 40B developments.

The committee also recommended a couple of allocations related to recreation, including $135,000 to go toward a playground at the Martinson Elementary School. The committee reduced the Martinson money figure from $175,000, which was lower than the project’s initial cost of more than $200,000.

Because other elementary schools in town have requested money for new playgrounds in the past few years, and in anticipation that two more will make requests in the next year or so, members discussed whether the community preservation committee should have a policy on how much money to provide for playground projects.

“I love playgrounds, but the reality is that we don’t have unlimited funds, and each year we get less and less – especially with the state match,” committee Vice Chairman Tim Russo said.

He suggested offering a flat rate for all of the schools.

Committee member Kerry Richardson said it might make more sense to set a per-pupil figure, but other members, including Bill Last, thought it would be impossible to come up with a figure than wasn’t just arbitrary.

The committee is also recommending $280,000 to create two multi-use fields at the Rockwood Road Athletic Complex, $119,000 to restore an iron fence around a chapel cemetery on Ocean Street, and $124,000 to restore 135 headstones at Marshfield Centre Cemetery, among other articles.